Can I get some critique please? Soil mix

[Metatron]

I've started with LC Mix #1 and amended with:

Alfalfa meal 2-0-3 @ 1.5tblsp/gal
Sure Start 4-6-2 @ 1tblsp/gal
Kelp meal 1-0-1 @ 1tblsp/gal
Steamed bone meal 3-16-0 @ 2tblsp/gal
Dolomite Lime @ 2tblsp/gal

All my meals are from EB Organics and the Sure Start is compromised of: blood meal, feather meal, bone meal, chicken manure, bat guano, alfalfa, kelp, humic acid and K sulfate. The steamed bone meal contains myco as well.

This is what I can procure at this time. I'd like to add later on:

Azomite, Soft Rock Phosphate, Greensand, Fish meal/Fish bone meal.

I plan to recycle soil as well.

TIA

 

[guest2012y]

May want to use that fish meal and fish bone meal,could just go straight fish bone meal and skip the animal bone meal....never hurts to add a gallon of compost either.
Not familiar with the percentages of N in the sure start. I'd be concerned about premature N depletion,that's why I say add the fish meal along with alfalfa. Not bad looking mix....could benefit from oyster shell also. my 2 cents

 

[Metatron]

May want to use that fish meal and fish bone meal,could just go straight fish bone meal and skip the animal bone meal....never hurts to add a gallon of compost either.
Not familiar with the percentages of N in the sure start. I'd be concerned about premature N depletion,that's why I say add the fish meal along with alfalfa. Not bad looking mix....could benefit from oyster shell also. my 2 cents

thanks CC, I knew I had something else on my mind...oyster shell!

 

[guest2012y]

thanks CC, I knew I had something else on my mind...oyster shell!

May as well add the agricultural gypsum too.
That's the good 3-way lime mix that Steve Soloman recommends. (dolomite,oyster shell,gypsum)
Can't hurt in a peat based mix one bit.

 

[stealthnstoned]

May want to use that fish meal and fish bone meal,could just go straight fish bone meal and skip the animal bone meal....never hurts to add a gallon of compost either.
Not familiar with the percentages of N in the sure start. I'd be concerned about premature N depletion,that's why I say add the fish meal along with alfalfa. Not bad looking mix....could benefit from oyster shell also. my 2 cents

Hey capt, do you crush up the oyster shells yourself ? or do you go and buy crushed ones.. i have never seen them before.. Does it matter what Kind of oysters you use ? I know the shells vary quite a bti ( at least the look )

 

[Metatron]

oyster shell is one of the few supplies I can't find locally. Ordering online is a last ditch effort but if its part of the lime trifecta I'll try it.

CaptC

Is it too much to ask your application rates for gypsum and oyster?

 

[Cool Moe]

I think some wise men in here hve recommended mixing equal parts dolomite, oyster, and gypsum powders then using that mix at 2 tbsp per soil gallon. Defnitely don't use each at 2 tbsp per gallon, ph would go sky high.

 

[guest2012y]

Since the original 3 way lime mixture is part of a seed meal fertilizer mix and since has been adopted by some around here for a lime mix in cannabis,(CC being the one that got me and others tuned into it),there isn't really an exact measure I can give you. I eyeball 1/3 part Agriculture Lime, 1/3 part Dolomite, and 1/3 part Gypsum and
I use it as I would dolomite,1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix....or two tablespoons per gallon of soil mix.
Remember that 1/3 a cup of any of these per cubic foot won't do much alone,that's why there's an equal mix. Dolomite alone will not raise ph over 7.0 even if you were to overdose with it.
If you dig around in Clackamas Coot's threads I'm sure you'll find his exact dose.

 

[Metatron]

Thanks for the point in the right direction